As my mum lives reasonably close to my office I usually pop in for a bacon sandwich once a week. Following the bacon sandwich and to accompany my cup of tea she usually asks me if I would like a bar of chocolate. They are stored in a Tupperware container and last week her selection included Fry’s Peppermint Cream bars. It is so long since I saw these that I had assumed there had stop making them.
I have to say it was a delight.
But the question is whatever happened to the Fry’s Five Centre bar?
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Dogbyte says
I bought some Fry’s Peppermint Cream bars in Asda recently.
If I’m honest the memory was rather better than the reality, I find them far too sickly sweet these days.
Locust says
Sounds similar to a Swedish chocolate bar called Makalös (meaning matchless/exceptional) that disappeared in the 90s. Four fillings: nougat, pineapple, marzipan/pistacchio and chocolate truffle…mmmm! The pineapple especially – they should do one with all pineapple filling (no they shouldn’t; I’m now a diabetic and my willpower is weak!)
fitterstoke says
The question is: whatever happened to Fry’s Five Boys?
retropath2 says
Desperation
Billybob Dylan says
I haven’t had a peppermint cream in years. I feel an Amazon shopping spree coming on.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Spangles alert!
Head for the confectionery nostalgia shelter everyone!
bungliemutt says
Evidence of a misspent youth…
fitterstoke says
Arf! Great tv ad as well……
Billybob Dylan says
I think my dad and I kept the local sweetshop in business in those days what with all the Aztecs and Amazin’ Raisin Bars we bought.
retropath2 says
Pacification
fitterstoke says
Anticipation…..
Moose the Mooche says
Iration….
count jim moriarty says
No idea if they are still made, but a great discovery I made on my first trip to Germany many years ago was the mint Rolo. Never available in the UK as far I know. They were wonderful!
Gatz says
Aldi make a Rolo-like chocolate with a peanut-flavour caramel middle. Far too more is how to risk buying except for a special treat.
Monkeyhanger says
A similar great discovery of mine here in Kuwait – hazelnut Kit-Kats …. marvellous accompaniment to a good coffee !
Freddy Steady says
Aldi also make a dark chocolate kinda rolo thing but it’s still very sweet.
You did als use to be able to get a dark chocolate peppermint cream which wasn’t half bad.
NigelT says
Weren’t they all dark chocolate..? Or was that just here darn sarf..?
retropath2 says
Expectation
Mike_H says
Rolos were milk chocolate, although I seem to recall them doing a dark chocolate “Special Edition” a few years back.
Fry’s Peppermint Cream is dark chocolate, isn’t it?
I’m not much of a sweet eater these days, except for the occasional bar of chocolate.
Billybob Dylan says
Do Marks & Sparks still make their own Walnut Whips? This is (or was) a case of the “cover” version being vastly superior to the original because the M&S one had a walnut in the middle as well as on top!
NigelT says
The very original Walnut Whips did have one in the middle, and one (or rather half) was added on the top later….then they dropped the one inside.
Did I read recently that the one on the top is going too..?
SteveT says
@Nigel wouldn’t it then be a Walnut surprise? As in surprised to find a walnut.
NigelT says
I have now checked….the walnut is going completely and it is now a Whip….!
I used to like them for the thick chocolate…never liked walnuts much anyway.
Billybob Dylan says
Sacrilege!
mikethep says
Dime Bars…not 100% certain, but I think we have IKEA to thank for bringing us this toothsome(=rotting) sweetmeat. Don’t remember them before that, anyway. And Harry Enfield.
Locust says
Yup, it’s Swedish. Original spelling was “Dajm”, until they started to flog it abroad.
retropath2 says
Acclamation
Black Celebration says
NZ Supermarkets now stock Fisherman’s Friends! I was trying to describe them to my daughter a few weeks ago and now she knows.
I preferred Victory Vs though.
mikethep says
I self-medicated with Fishermen’s Friends when I spent a couple of months coughing and wheezing recently. They were the only thing that helped. They flay your tongue though.
SteveT says
@mikethep a guy is in court on a charge of sexual assault and is asked to stand up and explain his defence.
He starts to speak but has a bit of a cough. The judge asks him if has tried sucking a Fisherman’s Friend. ‘Don’t you think I am in enough trouble already?’.
Moose the Mooche says
The ones with the blue and white stripes on the packet are like putting Strontium 90 in yer gob.
retropath2 says
Realisation.
Thems the 5 boys. Now relabelled as
Dysuria, Pruritis, Expectancy, Amyotrophy, Realization: I’m diabetic!!!
(Me? I’m not, I prefer crisps.)
GCU Grey Area says
From the ‘Viz’ Bygones of Yesteryear calendar, a few years ago.
chiz says
Anyone else remember Fry’s Crisp’n’Dry, the chocolate bar made with vegetable oil?
GCU Grey Area says
That was the one that didn’t leave a mark on the kitchen towel that was softer than wiping the floors with a puppy.
Gatz says
Wasn’t the puppy for wiping your arse with?
Moose the Mooche says
“I’ve always thought that cornflakes look a bit like people” – Edward Catflap, 1987.
count jim moriarty says
It’s SPRY Crisp ‘n’ Dry, not Frys. Still available in all good supermarkets (and some rotten ones too).
Moose the Mooche says
Iceland stock it.
I’m mentioning that because I bet I’m the only Afterworder ever to have been in one, notwithstanding the patronage of Dame Kerry Katona.
mikethep says
No. I have often bought frozen peas there.
Vulpes Vulpes says
In KL you can get KitKats flavoured with green tea, and yes, they are green. Yummy.
Just be sure not to be tempted by any sweeties made with durian.
Droogie says
My local newsagent as a kid crammed all his chocolate bars on one tiny shelf in his shop. Unfortunately, this meant the Peppermint Aero would contaminate all the other bars next to it with it’s rancid mintiness, meaning you’d end up with Peppemint flavoured Mars Bars , Peppermint Kit Kats etc.
davebigpicture says
My dad always preferred Cadbury’s Bar Six to Kit Kat. In addition to Cadbury’s chocolate the fingers were horizontal.
retropath2 says
Has anyone ever managed to suck the sherbet up thru’ the liquorice in a sherbet fountain?
Sewer Robot says
I don’t come here to read this filth!
Black Celebration says
I do. What are you wearing?
Moose the Mooche says
A smile.
Black Celebration says
I remember doing that – but shortly after it gets all gloopy, you just devour the whole thing.